UCD School of Classics

Scoil na gClasaicí UCD

Prof. Philip Hardie, Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, will be giving a lecture on "Milton as reader of Ovid's Metamorphoses" at 5pm on Thursday 12th April 2012 in the HII seminar room. All are welcome.

Prof. Hardie has been a seminal figure in the field of the reception of classical literature and ideas, and is the author of important studies such as Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford, 1986), Ovid's Poetics of Illusion (Cambridge, 2002), editor of the Cambridge Companions to Ovid, and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Lucretius and of Classical Literary Careers and their Receptions (Cambridge, 2010). Together with Patrick Cheney he is currently co-editing The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature.

This lecture has been kindly supported by the College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD, and by the Humanities Institute of Ireland.